Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.

Good writing ain't necessarily good reading.

The hard part is putting one word after another.

Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.

You gotta dig through the shit to get to the gold.

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Voice is really about letting your characters loose.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

manuscriptmeanuscriptmoanuscriptmanurescriptand so on

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.